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How much did Manchester profit from slavery? Have your say

Revealing Histories: Remembering Slavery

A partnership project from eight museums in Greater Manchester

KS 3 & 4 themes

  • Africa and the transatlantic slave trade
  • Cotton and transatlantic slavery
  • Local cotton industries in Greater Manchester
  • The American Civil War and Lancashire cotton workers
  • Freedom and human rights
  • Campaigning for the abolition of slavery
  • After abolition
  • Legacies of transatlantic slavery: racism in Manchester

Contact the partnership learning team

learning@revealinghistories.org
If your enquiry is to arrange a visit to one particular museum please contact that museum directly.

Cotton and transatlantic slavery

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Related items

These images will take you to the object pages within the main Revealing Histories themes.

  • Crompton's Mule
  • Fabric, Golden Harvest
  • Fabric, Le Traite des Negres
  • Fabric, Slave chain
  • Fabric, The Chase
  • Interior of the Royal Exchange
  • Lancashire loom
  • Liverpool and Manchester Railway commemorative flowerpot
  • Souvenir cotton bale
  • Stereoscope card, Cotton is King
  • Study for Slave Hold
  • The Cotton Industry: A Romance of Modern Work

An interactive video drama on slavery and abolition

This Accursed Thing

British Slave Trader
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